Lucy's POV
Mother continues stuffing her bag of clothes and foods.  She then looks around and grabs camping materials. Seeing it full, she  pats everything, looking like she was wondering of what she could be  forgetting. Before zipping the big grey bag she has, she brings a brown  and rusty book. Seeming as old as the Dragneels themselves. After  stuffing the ancient looking book in, she zips the bag as quietly as  possible, not wanting to awaken Zeref. She then grabs it and wraps it  around her shoulder, looking around the place silently. Her eyes seemed  uneasy as her lips kept quivering. She lays her hand on her shirt and  pulls it softly.

-Lucy: "I don't understand... What could the emergency be that she  needs to drop her duties? This is what we're born into, meant to do. Why  is she just gonna stop and run away?" I ask with a hint of anger  rising. I grip Gray's hand tightly, wishing it to be Natsu's more than  anything. I miss the warmth and playful insults he'd give me. The way  his toothy grin lightens up the mood. Just one more year Lucy.

-Gray: "You'll understand everything Lucy," He says as his thumb rubs  my hand softly, making my tense self calm a bit. I smile to him and nod  as we follow mother out from the door. She was barely making a sound  with each step, thank goodness. After the battle him and Natsu had, I'd  be terrified to awaken him by trying to run away.

The question is, why? What could possibly be so terrible that has  happened between my mother and father that Zeref cannot find out? And if  he does, they're both "goners"?

She now walks towards the house's balcony and looks down, seeing my  father signaling for her to come along. She throws him the bag and jumps  off the balcony, into his arms as quietly as possible.

-Jude: "You ready?" He whispers, for her to respond with just a nod.  You could tell she wasn't happy with this decision. They start running  quietly throughout the tropical forest, very careful to not step on any  twigs to snap. Being as far as they could be, Jude looks around warily.  Once he sees that no one's around, he brings out the legendary  maleficus' book and searches quickly through it until he arrives at a  specific page. After finding it, his eyes shut for about five seconds,  and when they open, they reveal the eyes of someone communicating with  our ancestors. He raises his fingers and does odd movements with them,  also revealing runes around them.

"Ut ad portum salutis nobis. Nos mos grow una est et pro quo resurgens Conditor Nos pueri champion. Take nobis. Take nobis."

As he's finishing the spell, he grabs my mother's hand until they disappear in thin air, leaving blue colors behind.

-Lucy: "Where'd they go?!" I shout, quickly moving my sight towards Gray impatiently.

-Gray: "To a cabin, their safe haven."

-Lucy: "Explain to me what is going on. Why are they on the run? Why  are they goners if Zeref finds out? Does my mother love Zeref and  Jude--"

-Gray: "Lucy! Stop it. You will see. I promise. I told you to be  patient." He says, making me realize how stupid I must've sound.

Patience Lucy. Gray would never leave you in the dark...

-Lucy: "I'm sorry. What are we gonna do now?"

-Gray: "1999. The day before the disaster."

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1999

As I open my eyes, my sight sets upon a cabin. Looking so family  friendly. I walk around looking at the place, feeling the warmth of it  wrap around me. It was nice. I begin to hear unfamiliar cries. Baby  cries. I scrunch my eyebrows and walk towards the sound. As I enter the  room, my hand tightens it's grip on Gray's. There, I saw my mother  nuzzling a blond haired girl. She seemed about a month old or so. But as  I get closer, my heart begins to shake.

-Gray: "Do you recognize her?" I stay quiet, feeling a knot in my  throat along with my eyes bringing tears slowly. I couldn't speak. I was  literally speechless.

-Lucy: "That's why they left. Because of me."

-Layla: "You're gonna make history Lucy, I believe in you. And I  always will." She says softly before kissing the girl's forehead. My  forehead. Causing my baby self giggle and stretch my arms out to her. As  we witness the mother and daughter bonding, we hear footsteps come  along roughly on the cabin's wood.

-Jude: "Layla, I've done the hunting. So it's your turn to cook  dinner and leave me be with the babies." He says before coming towards  my baby self playfully and stealing her away from mother. I smile at  them, feeling the love already. Until realization slaps me. My eyes  widen and my breath hitches.

Babies?

-Layla: "Of course, you left it in the kitchen?" She asks as she  stands and makes her way through the door. He nods and puts my baby self  back into the crib, bringing out another baby. A boy, who looks exactly  as me.

-Jude: "Hello there handsome." He says as he wraps the boy around his  arms. As he does look at the baby boy, he smiles and does random hand  signs making the child laugh playfully until he's interrupted with  cries. "C'mon Lucy, we've gotta divide the attention with your twin  brother Lucky." I feel my heart sink down into my stomach.

A brother. A brother no one ever told me about, nor even gave me hints of his existence. Seriously?

The mixture of anger and sadness mush up in me. Making me feel  overwhelmed. As I begin to breathe heavily, the tears in my eyes finally  drop.

-Lucy: "Where is he?" I ask Gray. Looking down onto the floor. But it  feels as if I asked the wall. No words sound. And the silence is an  anchor, pulling my heart even deeper. The anger begins to take over, and  I tighten my grip on his hand. "Answer me."

-Gray: "Just continue surfing through the memories Lucy--"

-Lucy: "Tell me right now! I need to know right now!"

-Gray: "No. Stop it Lucy. You need to see everything yourself. And  you'll understand why no one wanted to speak the unspoken." I stay  silent, as tears continue staining my face.

-Layla: "Jude." I hear her say before I look quickly towards the door  and see a look in her eyes that is so terrifying. "The dinner is  ready." She says as she raises two fingers from one hand and unites  them. Changing the look on my father's face. He stands warily and nods.

-Jude: "Alright. Then here, take Lucky and I'll take Lucy." He says  as she picks my baby self up. And they begin walking silently towards  the kitchen. As they arrive, Layla goes to the window and blocks the  view completely. Looking at Jude.

-Layla: "I hope you enjoy the food dear." She says as she turns on  the blender with some fruits in it. As she turns it on, she sighs. "Open  it now." Jude goes under the kitchen's table and opens a hidden door.  Which was revealing a dark passage.

-Jude: "We both run for it and we protect the babies with our lives.  Remember our connecting spell as well Layla." He says as he cuts his  finger and smears his blood onto each of their foreheads. After, he  begins to whisper an enchantment, his iris' become clear once again.  When he's done with his spell, all of them fade into the nothing.  Invisible.

-Gray: "Close your eyes and open them when I tell you to." I do as he  says, and hear nothing at all. Only some breathing, which I assume is  his. "Open them." He says and as I do so, I see everything frozen in  time and their faded figures. "We can't follow them if they're  invisible, right?" My eyes widen. This power he has is ridiculous. He  can manipulate what he sees as well. The time goes back to normal and we  begin to follow their rushing. Entering the door, we could see it's  dark tunnel and my parents rushing with the babies. Surprisingly they  weren't crying at all.

-Jude: "You take the East river route and I'll take the North. And we  meet up at the Ceiba." He says as they arrive to the end of the tunnel. 

-Layla: "Wait!" She says before they go their separate ways. She  grabs Jude's neck and lands her forehead on his. "Just in case if we  don't see each other again. Know forever, wherever we are, that I love  you both so much for all eternity." She says before landing a kiss on my  father's lips and another one on my baby self. "Be safe."

-Jude: "You too my loves." He says before they part ways running quickly.

-Gray: "I want you to see Layla's route first and then Jude's." He  says making us redirect to the East. We begin running along with them.

-Layla: "Momma's got you Lucky. I won't let anything happen to us  baby." She says as she runs as fast as she can while she looks down onto  her hand, seeing two red veins beat.

-Lucy: "Is that the connecting spell?"

-Gray: "Yes. When the color fades away, it means the two souls are  gone." After a bit more of running, we see her slow down a bit, letting  exhaustion climb it's way up to her. Her hand lands on a tree as she  catches her breath. Once again, she looks at her hand with the veins and  smiles seeing them fine. Until she realizes the tree's fading color. My  eyes widen as the grass begins changing it's color as well until a  voice that brings shivers sounds.

-Zeref: "Layla." He says with a dear smile. "I know you're here. Your  smell is irresistible." He says as he searches around. "And so is your  breathing." She quickly holds her breath and stays still, not wanting to  make a sound. But as Zeref get's closer, the baby begins to cry out.  Terrified. "Ah, there you are." He says as he throws a flame towards  mother's foot, revealing her stand. She wipes her forehead by accident  in panic and shouts at the pain.

-Layla: "Stop it!" She says as she holds her baby closely.

-Zeref: "You abandoned your duties without informing me. I believe  this child must be the reason why. It hurts me, the fact that you don't  trust me." He says as he's closer to her and rubs his hand on her hair.

-Layla: "Well family comes first, doesn't it?" She asks, fear rising  in her as she see's her skin wrinkle and her baby's eyes change. "But  it's alright now. We're together now. You don't need to be so defensive.  Calm down." She says as she holds his hand with shaky breath. Hoping  that he calms his death power down.

-Zeref: "You told me you loved me. A year has passed since you ran  away. And now you have a child, with who I assume is Jude. You broke our  promise."

-Layla: "But--"

-Zeref: "Should I remind you of it? No children with someone other  than me. But of course you made a mistake. I can forgive it. It's  alright. All you just need to do is let the child and Jude go. That's  all." He says, widening Layla's eyes.

-Layla: "I promised to give my life up for my child if necessary. I  will play with fire if necessary Zeref." She says as she steps back,  closing into the river.

-Zeref: "Layla, think about it. --"

-Layla: "No." She says before pulling out her legendary wicked knife.  "I'm not running away anymore." She gulps at the change of Zeref's  iris'.

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